Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 (age 71–72) |
| Known for | Historian of Medieval Europe |
| Spouse | Ira Loeb Rezak |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | École Nationale des Chartes |
| Thesis | La châtellenie de Montmorency des origines à 1368 |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert-Henri Bautier |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Medieval |
| Discipline | Medieval European history |
| Sub-discipline | Semiotic anthropology, Documentary Practices, Diplomatics, Sigillography |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Website | https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/brigitte-bedos-rezak.html |
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak (born 1953) is a historian of medieval northern France. She has been a professor of history at New York University since 2002.
Bedos-Rezak focuses on medieval seals, studying what they can tell us about the culture that produced them and the individuals who used them. She researches how the meaning and significance of seals has changed over time and what those changes can tell us about personal and social identity.[1] More generally, she is an expert in semiotics, i.e., how signs are constructed and function metaphorically and actually in religious and other contexts.[2]
Philippa Hoskin and Elizabeth New called her work on seals as "pioneering", noting how both the matrix and the impression express the owner's will.[3]
Background
Born in France and educated at the École nationale des chartes and the Sorbonne Paris IV, she received her Ph.D. in 1977.[4] Afterward, she was the curator and head of the Seal Department at the Archives Nationales in Paris for three years. On coming to the United States, she was a visiting scholar (1982-85) and Mellon Fellow (1985-87) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, an adjunct associate professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook (1985-87), and a visiting associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park (1987-89) before joining their faculty as an associate professor in 1989. She served as its director of graduate studies from 1990 to 1993, and was promoted to professor in 1994.[1]
Fellowships and awards
In 1984, Bedos-Rezak was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. In 1985 she was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She participated as a fellow at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 1996-97.[5] in 2007 she was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London),[6] and In 2008 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.[1] In 2012 she was made a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America,[7] and was made a fellow of the International Committee on Diplomatics, Comité des sciences historiques in the same year. Bedos-Rezak was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in (2025).[8] Bedos-Rezak has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) (1995), the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA (2000), the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University (2000), and the Ecole nationale des chartes (2001).
Major publications
- Form and Order in Medieval France. Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography[9]
- "Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept,"[10] The American Historical Review, 2000
- "Replica: Images of Identity and the Identity of Images," published in The Mind's Eye[11]
- When Ego Was Imago: Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages[12][13]
References
- ^ a b c "Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists - Brigitte Bedos-Rezak". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
- ^ Parmentier, Richard (2012). "Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind". Recherches sémiotiques / Semiotic Inquiry. 32 (1–2–3): 187–199. doi:10.7202/1027778ar. ISSN 0229-8651.
- ^ Hoskin, Philippa M.; New, Elizabeth A. (2019-09-16). "'By the Impression of My Seal'. Medieval Identity and Bureaucracy: A Case Study". The Antiquaries Journal. 100: 190–212. doi:10.1017/S0003581519000015. ISSN 0003-5815.
- ^ "Bedos-Rezak Brigitte | École nationale des chartes - PSL". www.chartes.psl.eu (in French). Retrieved 2025-05-11.
- ^ "Brigitte Bedos-Rezak - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
- ^ "Prof brigitte BEDOS-REZAK". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
- ^ "Fellows - The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org. Archived from the original on 2025-05-05. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
- ^ "APS Elects New Members for 2025". www.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
- ^ Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte (1993-12-23). Form and Order in Medieval France: Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography. Routledge. ISBN 978-0860783558.
- ^ Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam (2000-12-01). "Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept". The American Historical Review. 105 (5): 1489–1533. doi:10.1086/ahr/105.5.1489. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ^ Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte (2006). "Replica: Images of identity and the identity of images in prescholastic France". The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages: 46–64.
- ^ Heidecker, Karl (2014). "Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak. When Ego Was Imago: Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages". The American Historical Review. 119 (5): 1751–1752. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.5.1751. ISSN 1937-5239.
- ^ Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte (2011). When ego was imago: signs of identity in the Middle Ages. Brill eBook titles 2011. Leiden Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-19217-1.